'Most religious students'

20 Aug 2011, 12:00 a.m. MDT

Crowds attend as President Cecil O. Samuelson and his wife, Sharon, give the first campus devotional of the new semester Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in Provo, Utah. Tom Smart, Deseret News

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In addition to being voted the "Top Stone Cold-Stone Sober School" in the country for several years running, BYU now has the distinction of being America's No. 1 college for "Most Religious Students."

The ranking is according to a survey of 122,000 college students across the nation conducted by The Princeton Review, a Massachusetts-based education services company for its newly published book The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition.

Crowd listens as President Cecil O. and Sister Sharon G. Samuelson speak at the opening campus devotional of fall semester at Brigham Young University Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in Provo, Utah. (Tom Smart, Deseret News) | Tom Smart, Deseret News

Joining BYU in the top five schools for "Most Religious Students" in order of ranking are Hillsdale College in Michigan; Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.; Wheaton College in Illinois; and Grove City College in Pennsylvania.

This year, in the same survey, BYU again garnered the spot for Top Stone-Cold Sober School, a distinction it has now earned for 14 consecutive years.